LAWRENCE CO.—While no one so far has reported that they actually felt anything, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) recorded a little shaker eight miles south of Sumner at 2:35 a.m. this morning, Wednesday, June 5, 2013.
It’s easy to sleep right through a 1.9, even if it’s right under you.
The magnitude 1.9 quake is due north of the area of Wabash County where, five years ago in April, our region had a big wake-up call with an earthquake swarm that began in the early morning hours of April 18, 2008, with a 5.2 and continued for several months.
To give you some perspective, here’s a google map; eight miles south of the “A” (Sumner), almost to the T-road but not quite, is the Berryville turn back to the west, north of Lancaster. Lancaster is due north of the 2008 quakes.
It’s hard to tell right now, but that might be right at the county line with Wabash. Pretty sure bet Lawrence’s Emergency Management director Jess Angle is all over right now…even though no one in that area has advised that they were even aware of the quake; but, he has to justify his existence.
Interestingly, just THREE days ago, we had it reported to us that “booms” were heard outside of St. Francisville in Lawrence County, a location to the south and east of where this quake was reported.
Please read Ang’s “Mystery Booms” article that appeared here first back in March, then was picked up Sunday by Yahoo! Voices and is under submission at Before It’s News.
SOMEONE out there knows if there is a connection between the booms and earthquakes…hopefully, that person will step forward. In the meantime, please practice earthquake mitigation, keeping heavy and/or glass objects away from where people sleep, or that could block exit paths out of your home or office, as we sit atop one of the nation’s largest and least understood fault lines, the Wabash Valley Seismic Zone.